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Although pacifists were opposed to the draft, only a few refused to register. A week before registration day John Swomley, of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, talked to the group on what was involved in not registering and advised that they all should sign up. A mock trial of a conscientious objector was also held in order to acquaint members of the League with the answers they should make...
...Twenty students at the Union Theological Seminary in New York City announced that they would refuse to register (the law requires theological students to register, exempts them from service). Tough, testy Colonel Arthur V. McDermott, the local draft director, promptly threatened to jail...
...peace, the U. S. got ready last week to draft a first batch of 400,000 men for twelve months' military training. At war, Canada last week called to the colors and put in training camps 30,000 men for 30 days...
...industrialists bombarded the Government with complaints that for even 30,000 young men to get even 30 days in training camps was taking so many skilled workers out of factories as to hamper the main Dominion war effort: industrial production. Originally Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, when the draft bill was being prepared, asked Canadian Army bigwigs what was the very shortest possible training period for draftees which would make any sense at all from a military point of view. He was answered: two months. The 30-day camping period, a political compromise, was an expression of the fact...
...reservist captain in the Army Specialists Reserve had kicked up such a fuss that it might have "an injurious effect on the selective service program," Elliott Roosevelt last week tried to resign his commission, so that he could go home to Fort Worth to register for the draft. On the grounds that his services were needed and that poor eyesight would disqualify him for fighting or flying, Brigadier General Oliver P. Echols, his commanding officer at Wright Field, refused his resignation...